Coronavirus disease 2019 in Egypt: country experience and preparedness

Since the first discovery of clusters of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)-infected patients in China, Egypt designed strategies and action plans to face COVID-19 challenges on the health care system, as well as at economic and social levels. The Ministry of Health and Population regulates the health care system capacity with a mounting strategy to avoid the collapse in health care system capacity and to maintain the regular health services; the COVID-19 taskforces include many connecting pillars such as command and control center, triage hospitals, PCR chain, isolation hospitals, contact tracing team, and ambulance fleet. Egypt adheres to competent health and protective measures while reopening the economic activities; on the contrary, an important step was taken in designing many clinical trials and sharing in vaccine trials while raising the capacity for potential vaccine production.